Week 3 Assignment

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Week 3 Assignment

Culminating Lesson
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck


I. Topic: Researching Migrant Workers

II. Essential Question: What is the Great Depression? What is the Dust Bowl? What are migrant workers? How are George Milton and Lennie Small examples of migrant workers?

III. Knowledge of Students:
Class Size: 27 Students
Time: 60-90 minutes
Method: Webquest/ Research Paper/Project
Class: 9th Grade English

IV. Goals and Connections to Appropriate Standards
Goals:
  1. Understand the role and impact of the Great Depression/Migrant Workers
  2. Understand how Of Mice and Men mirrors the reality of migrant workers during the 1930s.

Common Core/NETS:
  1. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. (Common Core – ELA)
  2. Creativity and innovation (NETS)
  3. Communication and collaboration (NETS)
  4. Research and Information Fluency (NETS)
  5. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making (NETS)
  6. Digital Citizenship (NETS)
  7. Technology Operations and Concepts (NETS)

V. Instructional Activities:
Preparation:
  1. Create webquest
  2. Book computer lab
  3. Finish reading and discussing Of Mice and Men

Structure of Lesson:
Introduction – Attendance; review of assignment
Teaching Activities – webquest facilitation
Closure – Questions/reminder of assignment

Introduction:
  1. Take class attendance. Review assignment.

Teaching Activities:
  1. Facilitate student-logins and navigating to webquest site
  2. Help students with their research, completion of graphic organizers, and navigation of the internet resources.
  3. Facilitate completion of webquest as a whole and the beginnings of the writing process/creation of project

Closure:
  • Questions?
  • Reminder: Assignment due 2 weeks from today

VI. Extension and Enrichment:
  • In order to extend the lesson and keep the students thinking about the topic going forward, the students will begin producing their 5-paragraph essay or project.

VII. Assessment
  • The students will be assessed via their graphic organizers and 5-paragraph essay/project